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Behind the Scenes of The Hunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
BostonMagazine.com ^ | 27AUG2013 | Staff

Posted on 08/27/2013 3:19:48 PM PDT by Synthesist

It was likely the most terrifying manhunt in Boston history. With the city under lockdown and armored vehicles rolling through Watertown, the alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had seemingly vanished. While the rest of Greater Boston experienced the unfolding dragnet on April 19 as a series of indirect glimpses, Sergeant Sean Murphy, in his assignment as a tactical photographer with the Massachusetts State Police, was behind police lines, documenting the day’s events. Months later, Murphy walked into our offices and told us he was furious with the way Tsarnaev was being portrayed on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. He turned over a number of his photos to us because, he said, the suspect in the pictures he took that night was the actual face of terrorism, not the “fluffed and buffed” image on the Rolling Stone cover.

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BostonMagazine.com has a new article about the hunt for “Loser #2” including new police photos not released in their earlier story.
1 posted on 08/27/2013 3:19:48 PM PDT by Synthesist
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To: Synthesist

So is this huge success enough to propel DeVal Patrick (aka Baraq Jr) to Hillary’s VP slot?


2 posted on 08/27/2013 3:24:17 PM PDT by nascarnation (Democrats control the Presidency, Senate, and Media. It's an uphill climb....)
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To: Synthesist
They should have had even more increased surveillance of TEA Party groups, and they would have apprehended the Tsarnaev brothers earlier, with all those tips from SPLC.
3 posted on 08/27/2013 3:27:18 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: nascarnation

Door-to-door searches by jack booted thugs, and the pipsqueak perp was located by a homeowner after finally given permission to exit his home.


4 posted on 08/27/2013 3:30:54 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Obama sends U.S. Marines to pick up his dog & basketballs. Benghazi? Nope.)
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To: Synthesist
The Boston Marathon Bombing never happened because the NSA's perfect reading of every potentially terrorist related email caught the Brothers Tsarnaev before they executed their backpack pressure cooker bomb plan.

Especially since Russia told us repeatedly to watch those Tsarnaevs.

So, the idea that there ever was a Boston Marathon Bombing is impossible.

Bless our Overlords, the NSA!!!


5 posted on 08/27/2013 3:35:01 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (No bombs for Al Qaeda in Syria!)
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They should have put that photographer(?) on leave...forever.

What a pathetic display of "tactical" police work in pictures.

6 posted on 08/27/2013 3:36:47 PM PDT by lewislynn (What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in common? Disinformation)
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To: Synthesist

The city of Boston was NOT under a lock down. You could drive and walk wherever you wanted . I was walking around the city with a black backpack with my tools , PC and not a single cop botheted me. Most people used it as a day off.


7 posted on 08/27/2013 3:41:41 PM PDT by lonerepubinma
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8 posted on 08/27/2013 4:03:53 PM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: lewislynn

The snapshots are not at all compelling; they don’t tell any sort of story. There’s no sense of composition. They’re poorly focused half the time. It looks like they bought him a new lens and he couldn’t figure out how to take it off f/1.8. A least he didn’t shoot a dog. :-p


9 posted on 08/27/2013 4:22:13 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: nascarnation

The story shortly after was that BHO had to call Coupe to tell him not to go on a short vacation to his Western MA mansion while he had the area on lock-down.


10 posted on 08/27/2013 4:48:10 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: FoxInSocks

Tactical photographer.....it’s not usually a trained photographer. Usually the guy with his own equipment, who used to shoot for the yearbook.


11 posted on 08/27/2013 4:54:33 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will watch the watchers?)
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